A rabbinical court in Jerusalem has sentenced a dog to stoning, according to Behadrei Hadarim, a Hebrew website for ultra-Orthodox Jews. The sentencing came after a large dog wandered into the Monetary Affairs Court in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim.
Visalia, California resident Shamci Rafani is worried about the effect of sex scandals on our society. So she wrote a letter to her local newspaper, the Gannett-owned Visalia Times-Delta, to offer a solution:
Iran's state-run PressTV yesterday aired a "reconstruction" of the murder allegedly committed by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani — the woman sentenced to death by stoning earlier this year. In it, she reenacts the moment she injected her husband. It's creepy.
The human rights group International Committee Against Stoning says it has information that Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani — the Iranian woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning — could be hanged today in Tabriz prison.
Iran's really had a hard time deciding whether it will stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to death for adultery. Well, they've formally suspended the stoning! She still faces 99 lashes. She "might still be executed by hanging." But no stones! [NYT]
After the Times of London published a purported picture of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, she now faces 99 lashes for having her picture taken unveiled. Her stoning sentence has been suspended, though.
Just when you thought that absurd, monstrous Biblical punishments had been consigned to the dustbin of history, the Taliban is bringing back stoning. Way to be awful monsters, guys. What crime merited this horrific execution method?
The Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, appeared on state-run television to denounce her asylum-seeking attorney and admitted she knew beforehand about her husband's murder. Another lawyer says Mohammadi-Ashtiani has been tortured.
Iran is reviewing a now-reversed sentence of death by stoning for an adulterous woman. "Sentences such as stoning will be closely reviewed and probably changed," said Iran's top human rights official. Um, yay? [CNN]
The 43-year-old Iranian woman who was convicted of having an "illicit relationship" outside her marriage, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, will not be stoned to death, according to authorities there. They did not say whether the death sentence had been lifted.
